how do you deal with friends having babies?

Count me in as another who hates the whole "god's will" baloney. I can see how your friend's announcement would sting. It is basically say: "god thinks we are more special than you, apparently." Another similar thing that I hate is when people feel a need to tell me about their traumatic pregnancies... where their baby lived. ("My pregnancy was so terrible, but I am such a good and special and heroic person that my baby lived"). Just another way to make me feel like a failure.....